Probably around 5. I gave it a B- on first listen but my letter grades don't correspond to numbers at all, don't ask me to explain. Some pleasantly surprising stuff but sill a lot of stuff that's just sort of there. I do not like Can't Stop, COCO, or CT at all for the most part. TGIY also doesn't do it for me in the studio. Here On Out, When I'm Weary, B&BB, Sam Cop are alright. She, DYR, VITR, A&A, and IOY are my favorites at the moment. So 4 not so good, 5 pretty good, and 4 in the middle.

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Probably around 5. I gave it a B- on first listen but my letter grades don't correspond to numbers at all, don't ask me to explain. Some pleasantly surprising stuff but sill a lot of stuff that's just sort of there. I do not like Can't Stop, COCO, or CT at all for the most part. TGIY also doesn't do it for me in the studio. Here On Out, When I'm Weary, B&BB, Sam Cop are alright. She, DYR, VITR, A&A, and IOY are my favorites at the moment. So 4 not so good, 5 pretty good, and 4 in the middle.

IOY would be higher for me but that live intro is so fucking stupid. I thought Iíd like She more but itís more ďmehĒ for me, while COCO is in my upper 1/3. I donít care for WIW and the jury is still out on B&BB for me...it just feels like such a jumbled effort musically and lyrically, like it has no real direction or pace.

If I'm going to rate Come Tomorrow, I'm going to include Some Devil in the discussion.

So...

BTCS - 10

UTTAD - 9

Crash - 9

Some Devil - 8

LWS - 7

Busted Stuff - 6

Big Whiskey - 5

Away From The World - 5

Come Tomorrow - 4

Everyday - 2

Stand Up - 1

I think the chunk of Whiskey, World and Tomorrow will always change, some days I'll probably look at Tomorrow is better than the other two and some days I may feel like World is the strongest of the three, but they'll always been linked close together in terms of overall rating for me.

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Went with a five. There’s more here that I like than that I don’t, but too much of what I like has problems that keep me from loving it. A&A and B&BB are the only two tracks that I’d say they really nailed, and even then I have to ignore the sirens. IOY should have been track 1. Fading in on the crowd noise then transitioning to the studio would have worked better there. And it’s a better opener than SC, which is fine but just doesn’t have any personality. DYR should have been the best track on the album. But it isn’t. I said in the album thread that there are too many small musical ideas on this album trying to act big by piling on orchestration. Here On Out (which I like) and COCO (which I don’t) are the two biggest offenders there. Here On Out is good, but I think would have been better stripped of the strings. COCO is just a bad song trying hard not to be.

I’m at a Seven (ironic don’t cha think) glad we finally got some studio recordings of some of these songs and the new ones are pretty strong. Far from perfect but far from Standup garage band level of ineptitude

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Two major thoughts. First, I think our fears of the inconsistency definitely proved true. The engineering is abysmal on alot of this(but not every track) IMO, particularly Dave's guitar/vocals, and Carter's drums. Second, this just feels like such a waste of a couple of songs with great potential that came out half baked. When I read how unenthusiastic Dave was in that 2015 Rolling Stone interview about releasing another album, I hoped he was done. This album was exactly what I feared with that.

I loved AFTW, it blew away my expectations. I truly wish it had been the end if this is the effort they are willing to put into new albums